Apartment Fire Injures Man, Boy

May 31, 2000

A man and a young boy were critically injured Tuesday afternoon when a fire swept through their South Side apartment, officials said.

Firefighters entered a first-floor apartment of a three-story building in the 8200 block of South Ellis Avenue shortly before 2 p.m. and pulled an unconscious 62-year-old man from a bathtub and a 4-year-old boy from the apartment, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Kevin McGregor.

The man, whose name was not released, was taken to Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center, where he was in critical condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The boy, whose name also was not released, was taken to University of Chicago Hospitals, where he was in critical condition in the pediatric intensive-care unit, a hospital spokeswoman said. The boy suffered smoke inhalation, the spokeswoman said.